Overview
- The ex-soldier described weeks of reconnaissance, including drone surveillance, before firing a single .308 round from about 365 metres at Kwinana Motorplex in 2020.
- He told the WA Supreme Court Pye offered more than $150,000 for the hit and later sent coffin and clapping emojis on the encrypted app Wire after the shooting.
- The witness said he received a $50,000 prepayment and later found only $50,000 in a bag he expected to hold $100,000, with Pye allegedly replying that “the other person didn’t put in.”
- He also alleged Pye earlier offered $380,000 to kill a woman in witness protection and proposed a separate contract on another bikie based overseas.
- Pye has pleaded not guilty, his counsel attacked the witness’s credibility as dishonest, and the judge-alone trial is running under rare security measures including glass barriers.